Patrizia Ambrosini

An home movie documentary about a young man with a camera who tries to recount and reframe a pivotal moment in his childhood: the death of his mother. An intimate and personal story about what remains of that mother-son relationship, now marked by an unbridgeable distance and an absence with which it is necessary to come to terms.

Stella lives in Genoa with his sister and his alcoholic stepfather. His is not an easy life, and that to remain divided between his work in the harbor by day and dancer by night, despite his dream of becoming a professional dancer gives strength to continue. However, later the death of his mother is forced to put aside their aspirations.